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Chinese desserts are sweet foods and dishes that are served with tea, along with meals [1] or at the end of meals in Chinese cuisine.The desserts encompass a wide variety of ingredients commonly used in East Asian cuisines such as powdered or whole glutinous rice, sweet bean pastes, and agar.
Chinese dessert soups (汤; 湯; tāng or 糊; 糊; hú) typically consists of sweet and usually hot soups [1] and custards. They are collectively known as tong sui in Cantonese. Some of these soups are made with restorative properties in mind, in concordance with traditional Chinese medicine. A commonly eaten dessert soup is douhua.
Hong dou tang, hong dou sha, or red bean soup is a sweet Chinese dessert made from azuki beans. [1] served in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and places with Chinese diaspora. It is categorized as a tong sui, or sweet soup. It is often served cold during the summer, and hot in the winter.
Sausage bun, also called "hot dog bun" – Steamed or baked bun, always includes a piece of sausage or hot dog; Sachima – Sweet Manchu pastry made from flour, butter, and rock sugar; consists of crispy, fluffy fried strands of batter; Sou – Triangular, puffy flaky pastry with various fillings
Though many desserts and sweets date back to the Edo period (1603–1867) and Meiji period (1868–1911), many modern-day sweets and desserts originating from Japan also exist. However, the definition of wagashi is ambiguous, and the line between wagashi and other types of Japanese confectionery is vague.
Assorted bean tong sui. The origin of Tong sui is hard to track, and its development in different regions also varied. One main theory is that the climate in Lingnan is hot and humid, [4] and Traditional Chinese Medicine believes this weather makes people catch dampness and internal heat, and sugar has the effect of clearing dampness and internal heat.
Grass jelly – Asian jelly-like dessert; Ji dan gao – Taiwanese sponge cake; Kiâm-piánn – Taiwanese salty biscuit; Lek-tau-phong – Taiwanese mung bean minced meat mooncake pastry; Mango shaved ice – Taiwanese shaved ice dessert with mango topping. Mochi – Japanese rice cake
Grass jelly is chopped in small cubes and served as an additional ingredient in sweet desserts made from various kinds of beans . There are two common kinds of grass jelly in Vietnam which are Platostoma palustre ( Mesona chinensis , called sương sáo in Vietnamese) and Tiliacora triandra (called sương sâm ; sương sa or rau câu is the ...